Trans-siberian Orchestra Tickets : The Band Is Most Famous For Their Christmas-themed Rock Operas

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is an American progressive rock band founded in 1993 by producer

, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team. Since then, TSO has gone on to sell nearly 8 million concert tickets and 8.5 million albums.The band's musical style incorporates classical, orchestral, symphonic, and progressive elements into hard rock and heavy metal.

The band is most famous for their series of Christmas-themed rock operas (Christmas Eve and Other Stories, The Christmas Attic, and The Lost Christmas Eve), for which they do an annual fall/winter tour. Their other releases are rock operas on historical themes. Trans-Siberian Orchestra is also known for their extensive charity work and elaborate concerts, which are complete with a full orchestra, a massive light show, lasers, dozens of pyrotechnics, moving trusses, video screens, and other effects that are synchronized to the music.

Despite the name, the group has no connection to Siberia or any part of RussiaTheir debut album, a Christmas-themed rock opera called Christmas Eve and Other Stories, was released in 1996. It remains their best-selling album and contains the Savatage song "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" as "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" from their 1995 concept album Dead Winter Dead.

Their 1998 release The Christmas Attic, the sequel to Christmas Eve and Other Stories followed a similar format.

This album featured what remains one of the orchestra's most recognizable songs, "Christmas Canon," a take on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D major with lyrics added.Also in 1998, at the request of Scott Shannon of WPLJ they performed live for the first time in a charity concert for Blythsdale Children's Hospital. In 1999, at the urging of Bill Louis, a DJ for WNCX in Cleveland, they did their first tour, during which they debuted the sections of the Beethoven's Last Night, a third rock opera and their first non-Christmas album that was released in the spring of 2000. They would go on to perform the album in its entirety for the first time during the spring of 2010.

In October 2010, Beethoven's Last Night was released in Germany with new cover art by Greg Hildebrandt.After several years of touring, the orchestra returned to the studio and subsequently released The Lost Christmas Eve, their final Christmas record, in 2004. The next year they combined all three Christmas albums and released them in a box set titled The Christmas Trilogy, which also contained a DVD of their 1999 TV special The Ghosts of Christmas Eve.

After another few years of touring, Night Castle, Trans-Siberian Orchestra's latest album, was released on October 27, 2009 debuting at #5 on the Billboard Charts and was certified gold in eight weeks. The two-disc set includes a version of "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, which was previewed live by the band during their 2004/2008 tours. An MP3 version of the album released through Amazon contains an additional track entitled "The Flight of Cassandra.

The first half is a rock opera about a seven-year-old child on a beach who meets a stranger from New York City who tells her a story that takes her all around the world a through time where she encounters various characters, many of which are based on historical individuals such as Desiderius Erasmus. The second half pays homage to Trans-Siberian Orchestra's influences. It also contains new versions of several Savatage songs as well as "Nut Rocker," originally by B. Bumble and the Stingers and previously made famous by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, featuring Greg Lake on bass guitar.

In February 2011, Night Castle was released in Germany with two live bonus tracks (""Requiem" and "Toccata-Carpimus Noctem") added. Both live tracks were recorded on the 2010 spring tour at the Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, formerly Nokia Theater, in Grand Prairie, TX.

by: Amanda Harrison

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